Chapter 1: The Girl That Fell from the Sky

It was a somewhat calm, peaceful Monday afternoon here in the little town of Peach Creek as we come upon the forest that was beside Peach Creek Jr. High. It is here where there is a place called the Pit, a place to hang out and relax after school. But, a short while ago, it was not a place to relax; but the Pit was used as a place for a fight.

It was a “fight” (AN: Meaning that it was staged as a real fight) between Double D and Jimmy. But it all went downhill after Jimmy started to attack Eddy, who was teasing him. Then Jimmy attacked Double D for trying to help Eddy.

All the three Ed’s, who were all battered and injured from some kind of pain, were the only ones at the Pit at the moment. After a few minutes, they left the area of the Pit, walking back to the school to get their backpacks, which were currently located at the front of the school.

Ed was a tall, twelve year old preteen with a red-tinted buzz cut, a unibrow and hazel, green-brown eyes. He was wearing a red and white striped t-shirt that was underneath a long, green jacket that went a little past his waist, baggy blue jeans, and black tennis shoes.

Double D was a middle sized twelve year old preteen that had only three strands of black hair coming out of the back of his white-striped, black sockhat and had dark, jade green eyes. He wore a red-orange t-shirt that went past his waist, purple carpenter pants that went to his knees, and blue tennis shoes with long, red socks that went to his mid calf.

Eddy was a twelve year old preteen that seemed to be just a smidge too short for his age. He had three, long strands of dark, almost navy blue-colored hair that stuck out more than the rest of his hair on his slightly shaggy blue hair and had dark, ice blue eyes. He wore a yellow t-shirt that went right to his waistline. The shirt had a purple collar and a red stripe coming down the right side of his shirt. He wore baggy blue jeans with a silver wallet chain coming out of his front left pocket and also wore red tennis shoes with white and black designs on them.

“Grr, I’m so gonna get that little twerp when we get back home!” Eddy growled to himself as they exited the woods that they were in, “The nerve of him attacking me!”

“Well, you did provoke him into attacking you, Eddy,” Double D stated as he turned to him.

“Oh?” Eddy questioned sarcastically, “How so?”

Double D could only sigh at his behavior, putting his right hand to his forehead, “You’re so stubborn sometimes…”

Ed, in the meantime, was not paying any attention to his two friend’s conversation. Instead, he was staring up at the sky for no particular reason. But something did catch his attention very quickly, “Umm, guys?”

“What?” both Double D and Eddy questioned quickly; this was the first time Ed said anything to them for the past ten minutes.

“What’s with the blue line in the sky?” Ed asked with awe in his voice.

“Huh…?!” Double D muttered with confusion as he and Eddy both looked up into the sky. They both gasped at what they saw.

Just like Ed had said; there was a dark, blue streak of light in the sky, and it was heading to the direction of the Pit. They watched with amazement (AN: Or horror, depending on which Ed’s reaction) as the blue streak of light disappeared into the woods behind them. They then heard a very loud ‘thud’ afterwards.

There was silence between the three before Eddy spoke, “What the heck was that?!”

“It looked like one of the planet Junopia’s evil Meteor Men!!!” Ed stated in horror.

“No Ed, I think it was just a meteorite,” Double D quickly stated, trying to calm Ed down from his sci-fi theories.

“A meteorite, eh…?” Eddy questioned a little as he then plotted his hands together with the look of greed in his eyes, “Don’t meteorites fetch a lot of money when someone finds them?”

“Well… yes,” Double D hesitantly replied, “But, I would like to examine it to see if it is an unknown alloy, and then see if we can sell it off to someone who collects meteorites.”

Eddy’s eyes widen at the thought, “Well, what’re we waiting for?!” he soon starts to run back to the Pit.

“Wait!” Double D called out to Eddy, who stopped to see what he had to say, “What about are backpacks? The school might take them up if we leave them there.”

Eddy seemed to growl under his breath, already seeing where this was going.

“In the meantime, I’ll go to the meteorite and see what kind of element it is,” Double D explained.

Eddy made a defeated sigh as he turned to Ed, “Ed, let’s hurry up and get out backpacks before the school takes them up.”

Ed just nodded his head, “Okie-Dokie, Smoky!”

Eddy and Ed soon headed back towards the front of the school while Double D headed back towards the Pit. Double D took his time though, seeing that there was no rush to it. When he got back to the Pit, he saw a huge crater up ahead that had knocked down or moved things that were around when the meteorite hit the ground.

“Hmm, the meteorite must be big in order to create this kind of crater,” Double D said to himself. He soon glanced down to look into the crater, “I wonder what kind of--?!”

He suddenly stopped what he was saying as he made a startled face. Double D’s heart seemed to have skipped a beat as he made a gasp; his face soon turned crimson around his cheeks.

There, down deep within the crater, was an unconscious twelve year old girl. She had dark, ocean blue hair that went to her chin and ears, which looked a little bit like a boy’s haircut. She was wearing a baby blue t-shirt with a long sleeved white undershirt, ivory-colored cargo pants that went to her knees, and baby blue and white sneakers. But, the worst thing about this picture was the cuts and bruises that covered her arms, face, and legs.

“Oh dear!” Double D exclaimed as he was quickly by the girl’s side in the crater. He quickly put his index fingers on her neck, hoping to feel a pulse response. He made a sigh of relief; there was a pulse, but it was very faint.

Double D then proceeded to lift her out of the crater with all of his strength. By the time he pushed her out of the crater and onto the soft grass beside it and climbing out of the crater himself, he was panting heavily from that physical activity.

“Hey, Sockhead!” called a voice from the woods as Double D could hear Eddy and Ed coming to the scene, “Did ya find out meteorite yet?! I’m practically drooling on myself to see it!”

“Eddy… Ed! It’s great -- that you’re… both here!” Double D said to them with a breath at a time before he finally regained his voice and posture, “There’s a girl here that needs some medical assistance!”

“What?!” both Ed and Eddy exclaimed as they both then came to the area to see what he was talking about.

“Whoa! W-W-What the heck?!” Eddy nearly yelped out of his skin, “Where did she come from?!”

“Whoa…” Ed muttered a little with awe, “Is she an alien for the planet Dinoco A113?”

Both Eddy and Double D gave him an odd stare, “… No Ed, I don’t think so,” Double D finally replied to Ed’s sci-fi statement, “But I do agree that she was the ‘meteorite’ we saw fall from the sky.”

“How can you say something stupid like that, Sockhead?!” Eddy nearly shouted at the top of his lungs, “That’s something that I’d expect Ed to say!”

“And that was something I really did want to say,” Ed agreed in his own way with a nod of his head.

Double D was about to respond before a sound cuts him off; a soft, yet hurtful groan. The three Ed’s turned to the girl, who was slightly rolling around, as if she were having a bad nightmare, before she went back to laying on her back. She then slowly opened her eyes; revealing dark, yet radiant sapphire orbs.

“W-Where… am I?” the girl stuttered a little as she then shot up as if she was just struck by lightning, gasping in horror.

This surprised the Ed’s, especially Double D; being that he thought that she would still be knocked out by the force of her landing. The three Ed’s just watched her as she got up off of the ground, as if she hasn’t been hurt at all.

“Umm… E-Excuse me,” Double D started to stutter to the girl, “A-Are you alright?”

The girl turned to see the Ed’s behind her. She widens her eyes in surprise, “Oh!” she then blushed like a tomato in embarrassment, “I-I’m just fine; t-thank you!”

“Hi there, alien girl!” Ed suddenly stated as he started to shake her hand up and down like a lever, “I am Ed, the earthling from Earth!”

“Ed, you maniac!” Eddy yelled at Ed as he came over, grabbed Ed by his green jacket, and dragged him back over to where he and Double D were, “She’s human, not an alien from one of your dumb comics!”

The girl looked on at the scene with confusion before she realized what they were talking about, “Oh, I… must’ve fallen from the sky just now?”

Double D nodded his head, “That’s right,” he then tilted his from confusion to her statement, “But how, may I ask, did you fall from the sky?”

“I… I’m not sure,” she replied, “One minute, I’m at my best friend’s wedding at Juuban Park, and then…” the girl gasped in horror once again, “Oh my, the others!”

She then looked at her surrounding even closer than she did before, “Am I still in Juuban Park?!”

“No, you’re in the Pit close to our school,” Eddy stated as he raised a suspicious eyebrow, “You know, in Peach Creek. Where did you think you were?”

The girl was silent for a minute, “I-I don’t believe this…” she finally stuttered, ‘There’s a new threat to the world, and I’m on the other side of the world because of it!’

“I-Is there something wrong?” questioned Double D, noticing the worry in her eyes.

“… No; no, there’s nothing wrong,” the girl said, shaking that thought out of her head as another thought came to her. She looked up at the three boys and said, “M-My name is Ami Mizuno. What are your names?”

“I am Ed!” Ed said quickly with a little ‘hello’ wave.

Eddy made an arched eyebrow in suspicion once again, “The name’s Eddy.”

Double D felt like he had butterflies in his stomach when Ami then looked at him to get his name, “A-And my name is E-Eddward with two D’s, b-but everybody calls me Double D,” he stated back with a stutter.

Ami made a smile at the three boys, “Nice to meet you all…” she then thought about something else, “… D-Do you three know of a place to stay for the night?” she asked with slight hesitant, “I need to try to find a way back home, but I would need a roof to live under to do that.”

“I-I have an extra guest room at my house,” Double D said, “My parents won’t be back for another month, so you can stay there if you want.”

Ami made a nod, understanding, “That’ll be perfect,” she made a smile, “Thank you for the offer, Double D.”

“Y-You’re welcome,” he simply replied with a stutter, “W-Well, we should be heading back to the Cul-De-Sac; it’s starting to become dark.”

“I want cookies and milk!” Ed said with happiness as he, Eddy, Double D and Ami walked out of the Pit area and walked back to the Cul-De-Sac.

But little did any of them know that there was someone watching them from afar; it was a shadowy figure from the woods that was in the direction of the school. You clearly tell that it was a male figure by… well, his figure.

It was a somewhat steady, yet bustling summer day here in the city of Tokyo. Soon we come upon a part of the city called Juuban, where there was a little park named Juuban Park. It was then that we could see a small figure running down a path in the park, which then started to run towards a small lake just to the side of the path. The small figure then stopped in front of the edge of the lake, falling to his knees and placing its hands on the ground in a tired way as it did. It was breathing heavily, as if it had been running for a long time…

The small figure looked a lot like a frog; it was a dark, crimson red color. It was wearing some kind of dark brown hat that was fit snugged around the top of its head, and there was a small, yellow skeleton pin on the front of the hat. There was also a type of blue sash that was around its left shoulder, which went in a horizontal way across its chest to the right; in actuality, it was a belt, but it didn’t fit on the creature like one, so it wore the belt this way. It also had a scar on the left side of its face that went right to left horizontally on its eye. Who or what was this creature, you may ask…? Well, the frog-like creature here is named Giroro; he is a Keronian, which is an alien race from a faraway planet called Keron, a type of military planet that goes and invades other planets to conquer.

As soon as he regained his regular breathing pattern, Giroro sat down on the ground in front of the lake, looking into the distance in front of him. He made a deep sigh to himself, closing his eyes as he did; he knew this day would eventually come. The day that Saburo would ask Natsumi out on a date; to which, of course, Natsumi accepted with the brightest smile on her face. Giroro clenched his right hand into a fist as his face scrunched up a little in an upset look.

It has been about five years since he and his comrades came here to conquer Pekopon; or Earth, as we called it, to which they have little success in doing so after all this time. Even so, they have all decided to stay and live here on this planet, even if they have failed their mission to conquer. They quickly came to a conclusion to keep this planet safe from other aliens that would seek to invade or destroy it. But now, that was not a main priority in Giroro’s eyes anymore.

Ever since he came into contact with Natsumi Hinata five years ago, he knew that he was in love with her. During the times they spent together, he tried to tell her how he felt, only to come up short on it, fearing it would affect his ‘tough guy’ persona if he confessed. But now, he knew it was too late to say anything to her.

‘I think it’s just best to let her go on to what she wants to do,’ Giroro thought with a sad sigh, ‘At least she will be happy, which makes me happy… I guess.’

It was when he was sitting there near the lake that he soon spotted something to his vantage point to his right; a group of Pekoponians sitting around a blanket on the ground, with baskets and paper plates around them. They were having a picnic. Giroro soon picked up on the smell of the food of their picnic; whatever the food was, it smelled really good. Letting his curious smelling senses take him over, Giroro soon got up and went a little closer to the Pekoponians to see what they were eating; he might as well go and see, because as long as he had his invisibility cloak device on him, they would have no knowledge of his presence. It was when he was close enough to see what they were eating that he also noticed the appearances of the Pekoponians that were having the picnic.

There were five, young adult Pekoponian women sitting there, all of them seemed to be the same age as Natsumi; seventeen. Two of the girls were blond haired that were both long in length; one of them wore a red ribbon and the other one had two bobbed pigtails on the sides of her head; they both had blue eyes, one deeper colored than the other girl. One of the other Pekoponains had short blue hair; a bluenette (AN: That’s what I like to call people with blue hair sometimes) and equally matching blue eyes; and the other was a tall brunette, who had emerald green eyes. The last girl there was a black haired girl with violet colored eyes; this woman seemed to catch Giroro’s attention the most.

“Ah, it’s such a nice day today,” sighed the blond haired woman with the red ribbon in a dreamy way.

“That sure is the truth,” the brunette stated as she soon took out one of the foods from one of the baskets; it was a perfectly crisp apple pie, “Now let’s dig in before it gets too cold.”

“Will do, Makoto!” stated the blond with the two bobbed pigtails as she started to extend her hand towards the pie, but as she did...

“Usagi!” stated the black haired woman with a bit of a snap in her voice, making the blond with the bobbed pigtails stop what she was doing, “You’re going to have to wait until Makoto makes the slices; then you’ll to get a piece, just like the rest of us.”

The pigtailed blond, apparently named Usagi, only made a small glare at the girl with the black hair, “I know that, Rei!” replied back the blond, “I was just, uh… going to help Makoto slice it up; that’s all!”

“Uh huh, sure,” stated back the black haired woman, apparently named Rei, with a bit of sarcasm as the other three women sighed a small sigh at the two.

Meanwhile, unknown to the girls, Giroro was watching them from about five feet away from them; he watched them quietly and with a bit of small interest. Something was tugging at him in the back of his head on a feeling; he could tell these Pekoponian women were different from other Pekoponians. He couldn’t figure out why though; they seemed normal enough…

Giroro’s thoughts were interrupted when heard something growling below him; his stomach. He placed his hands over his stomach, hoping that none of the women heard it rumbling; too bad that one of the women did.

“Huh?” Rei muttered as she then looked around to see where the sudden noise came from; she knew it didn’t come from one of her friends. She then could sense another presence with them, standing not too far away from them. She then turned to where she felt the presence, but saw nothing but a faint outline of a small creature; Giroro. Her stare towards him were piercing, much to Giroro’s surprise; how could she tell he was standing here?! Without thinking much of it, he quickly darted off back towards the lake that he down at when he got here.

Her four friends looked at Rei with a confused look on their faces, “Is there something the matter, Rei?” asked the bluenette with a bit of confusion.

“… I could have sworn I felt a presence standing there, but then it disappeared,” Rei stated as she pointed to where she felt Giroro’s presence.

“Was it a new enemy or something?” asked the blond with the red ribbon.

This caught Giroro’s attention at what the blond said; even though he was now farther away, he could still hear them because of his excellent hearing, ‘An enemy?’ he thought.

Rei shook her head, “I don’t think so, I didn’t feel an evil aura from it,” she replied, “But now I think we should be cautious, if there truly is a new enemy…”

“Awww!” whined Usagi as she flopped down to the ground on her back, “We just defeated Chaos and Sailor Galaxia three months ago; and now there’s something else out there?!”

‘… Chaos? Sailor Galaxia?’ thought Giroro with a bit of interest, ‘They don’t sound familiar to me…’ He then lowered his head in a thought, closing his eyes and placing his hand under his chin as he did, ‘Hmm, maybe I should ask Kululu to look them up on his computer.’

Suddenly, the sound of a shrill scream cuts off Giroro’s train of thought. He opened his eyes and turned to where he heard the loud cry for help; it seemed to be coming from the area of a courtyard where there was a large fountain in the middle. Giroro turned back to where the five women were, only to see that they were no longer there.

‘They must have run away from the scream, or either towards it,’ Giroro thought, but soon shook those thoughts out of his head. He then started to run towards where all of the commotion was. When he got to the location of the scene, he was generally surprised at what he saw.

There were three strange creatures floating above the large fountain, looking on as another strange creature, which looked like them as well, that was attacking a random male Pekoponian that was in the area. The four creatures were about the size and stature of an average Keronian frog, maybe a little taller. The four creatures had bird wings on their backs, though all four of them had different designs on them. The first one of the bird creatures was red; he had black markings around his eyes, like the colors of a cardinal. The second bird creature was blue; he had both black and white markings around him, like the colors of a blue jay. The third creature was green; she had brown and dark yellow markings around her eyes, like the colors of a humming bird. The fourth and final bird creature was light yellow; she had white and light green markings around her eyes, like the colors of a parakeet; the light yellow one was the bird creature that was attacking the male Pekoponian. Each of the birds also had a gold bracelet around their wrists.

“Okay Pekoponian, let’s see if you have a true Star Seed in you!” stated the yellow bird creature as it then did something that surprised Giroro. The bird creature lifted up its arms to reveal the golden bracelet on its wrists; the bracelets then started to glow two golden lights as the lights then shoot out towards the helpless Pekoponian, circling around him as it did. The lights then hit the male Pekoponian’s body as he screams in pain. Soon the man stopped screaming as something appeared on the top of his head; a red-orange flower bud. The flower bud then started to bloom, revealing something that surprised Giroro even more. There, in the middle of the now bloomed flower, was a small, diamond-like crystal; it was shining in a bright light. But, as soon as it came into bloom, the light in diamond started to fade as it then turned the crystal black.

“Oh, looks like it’s just a dud after all,” sighed the yellow bird creature with a bit of disappointment.

“Of course it was, Private Parakeet,” stated the red bird creature that was with the other two creatures on top of the fountain as he and the other bird creatures came down to the yellow bird creature; he had a bit of a rough nature to him, “Even I could spot that he was a dud when you went after him.”

“Grr, it doesn’t matter that much now, Sergeant Cardinal!” stated the yellow bird creature, apparently named Private Parakeet, with a bit of a low growl, “We gotta get rid of the phage before it comes to its senses and starts to attacks us.”

“Hold it right there, you scum!” called out a voice from off to the side of the group of creatures as Giroro and them turned towards where the voice came from. They were surprised at who they saw.

There were five, young adult Pekoponian women standing where they heard the voice; the voice that they heard came from the woman standing in the middle of the group. Four of the women wore something similar to one another; a sailor suited leotard with a short, sailor fuku [mini skirt] and boots [or high heels, for some of them], while the fifth and final one wore something more exaggerated than the others. Each of the Pekoponian women had a color palette going on for them; one was dressed in blue and light blue, the other was dressed in red and violet, another one was dressed in green and light pink, and another one was dressed in orange and yellow. The last woman there, the one in the middle, looked to be the leader of the other four there with her. The most noticeable thing about this woman was that there was a yellow crescent moon on her forehead, while the others had golden tiaras on their foreheads. (AN: I would like to describe the leader’s clothes… But I’m not going to torture myself into typing that outfit… >:C)

“W-Who the hell are y’all?!” shouted the blue bird creature, with a bit more shock than anger in his voice; his name is Corporal Blue Jay.

“I’m glad you asked!” stated the leader of the five women as all of them did their own kind of pose as they introduced themselves; they were Sailor Venus (the one wearing orange and yellow), Sailor Jupiter (the one wearing green and light pink), Sailor Mars (the one wearing red and violet), Sailor Mercury (the wearing blue and light blue), and Eternal Sailor Moon (the one that is the leader, and the one that doesn’t have an outfit description).

“Ah, so you are the fabled Sailor Senshi the king mentioned,” stated the green bird creature with a bit of awe to her voice; she is the Lance Corporal of the group.

“Now is not the time to be impressed, Hummingbird,” growled Cardinal with a bit of a low snap at her, “It would be convenient to kill all of the Senshi off now, but we have other things to do.”

“Hold on a minute!” stated Eternal Moon to the bird creatures, “Tell us who you are and why you have those bracelets like Sailor Galaxia!”

“Hmph,” Cardinal huffed a little, closing his eyes for a moment as he did, “I guess we can amuse you for the moment on who we are, since we will certainly meet again in the future,” he then opened his eyes again to look at the Sailor Senshi, “We are Aevians from the planet Ventisora; we have come here under the orders of our king to take over this planet and eventually the universe. For us to succeed, we must first take over Pekopon!”

Giroro was very surprised to hear this; he knew they were Aevians by the way they looked. But he did not expect them to have their eyes set on Pekopon; or on any other planets, to be honest…

“As for these bracelets; our king gave them to us for this mission,” continued Cardinal, glancing down at them as he did, “And we do not know of any Sailor Senshi named Galaxia,” he then looked back up at the Senshi, “I think that’s enough talk for today,” he stated as he and the other four Aevians soon jumped high into the air, flying off into the distance as they did.

“W-Wait!” called out Eternal Moon as she tried to go after them, but was stopped as she saw the person who was attacked being transformed into a phage, “Oh shoot! I forgot about the phage!”

When the phage’s transformation was complete, it was now Sailor Cook, complete with two kitchen knives that were big enough to be swords… (AN: … I’m not going to bother writing a description on what this phage; or any of the phages look like. Just imagine what they look in your mind. XD)

“You ladies ready to get some cookin’ done?” questioned the phage, known as Sailor Cook, as he held out the two knives/swords in a fighting position.

The Sailor Senshi growled a little at the phage, “We can take you down without breaking a sweat!” barked Jupiter.

“Is that so? Well then…” stated the phage as the two knives in his hands started to form a menacing red fire around the blades, “Let’s get cookin’ then!”

‘Not on my watch!’ thought Giroro as he then took out a laser gun from thin air. Before the phage could throw the flaming knives at the Sailor Senshi, the firing of Giroro’s laser gun soon came to their ears; the laser bullets hit the phage on his hands and his chest, stunning him into dropping his flaming knives and making him fall to the ground.

The Sailor Senshi were shocked at the sudden actions that seemed to come out of nowhere. It was during this initial shock that Mars noticed Giroro’s presence again, even though he was still had his invisibility device on, ‘That thing again…’ she thought with a bit of narrowing of her eyes, ‘Was it the one that did that attack?’

“Eternal Moon! Whatever that attack was just now, it weak the phage; you should attack it now!” Mercury stated as she turned to Eternal Moon, who only nodded her head as her response.

Eternal Moon soon produced her Eternal Tier to her hands and does her attack, “Starlight Honeymoon…” she then points the tall staff to the phage, “Therapy Kiss!!!” she shouted as a soothing, white light comes from the tip of the tall staff.

The light then hits the phage, who just stands there, being healed back to normal by the lights, “Beautiful!!!” the phage cried as he then returned to normal; the flower on the man’s head turns back into a flower bud and returns to his forehead. The man soon passes out onto the ground, to which the Sailor Senshi come up to him to check on his condition.

Giroro took this time to take his leave, quietly walking away from the Sailor Senshi, but as he was walking away…

“Hey, you!” stated Sailor Mars’s voice as he could feel himself behind picked up by the hat on his head, “You know I can kind of sense you there, whatever you are.”

Giroro seemed a bit shocked at this turn of events, “H-How did you…?!”

“Sailor Mars!” stated the voices of the other Sailor Senshi as they came up to her, “The man looks to be fine,” stated Mercury with a bit of a small sigh at the end of her sentence.

It was Venus who noticed where Mars’s hands were up in the air, “Umm, why is your arm like that, Mars?”

“Yeah, it looks like you’re imitating a claw machine,” Eternal Moon stated aloud with a bit of a snicker in her voice.

“Think again, Eternal Moon,” Mars stated as she turned back to Giroro, “Make yourself visible please.”

“… Hmph, fine,” Giroro stated before raising his hands towards the yellow skeleton badge on his hat, which he turned a little to turn off the cloaking device, revealing his form to the Senshi.

“… An oversized frog that’s red?” questioned Jupiter with confusion, “Now I think I’ve seen everything,” stated Venus alongside Jupiter’s statement.

“Fascinating…” muttered Mercury as she typed a little on a computer that she produced in her hands, along with a blue visor over her eyes.

“Uh, what exactly are you, anyway?” asked Eternal Moon.

“Well, I would tell you, but I would like to be put down first, if you don’t mind,” Giroro replied, looking his eyes up a little at Mars, who was still holding him by his hat.

“… Oh,” muttered Mars as she put him back down on his feet, “Sorry about that,” she apologized, clearing her voice a little afterwards, “But seriously, who and what are you?”

Giroro sighed a little, “My name is Corporal Giroro. I’m an alien from the planet Keron, which is a territorial planet that conquers other planets.”

“… What?!” gasped the Senshi in shock, “So you’re here to take over Earth?!” questioned Eternal Moon as she narrowed her eyes slightly.

“That was the plan, about five years ago,” Giroro replied, noticing the Senshi’s tensing up at the news, “But the rest of the platoon and I abandoned that mission about a year ago; we now seek to help protect this planet.”

“Oh, so it was you who helped up out just now?” Venus questioned as she and the other Senshi lost their tenseness over Giroro’s statement.

Giroro nodded his head, “I was just running in this park when I saw what happened…” he then looked around the area a little more, “Uh… which park is this, anyway?”

The Senshi made confused faces at his statement, “You’re in Juuban Park,” replied Jupiter with an arched eyebrow.

“Hmm, that makes sense. I live on the other side of Tokyo, so I don’t come here much…” Giroro stated, lowering his head and closing his eyes for a moment, ‘It looks like I ran a little farther than I thought…’

A sudden beeping sound could be heard from Giroro, much to the surprise of the others. Giroro made a small sigh, ‘What does he what now?’ thought Giroro as he took out a small little device that had a microphone on it, “This is Giroro here; what do you want, Kululu?”

The Senshi could hear an unusual chuckle coming from the other side of the device, which is familiar to Giroro, “I’ve just received word from HQ that a group of Aevians are here on Pekopon, after half of their planet was destroyed by a big explosion. HQ said that they’re now hostile and told us to be careful,” the voice named Kululu stated on the other line, “Guess they still do care about us, even though we’ve failed our mission, kukukuku!”

“Hmph, you should’ve told me a little earlier, Kululu,” Giroro stated a bit calmly to his comrade, “I’ve encountered five of them, but they fled after doing something strange to a Pekoponian.”

“And I believe that’s where we come in,” stated Mars to Giroro; she quickly pieced together that ‘Pekopon’ and ‘Pekoponian’ were their way of saying Earth and humans, “Because we know what they did to the guy.”

“Yeah, the guy turned into a phage!” chimed in Eternal Moon.

“Hmm?” stated Kululu’s voice on the other line of Giroro’s device, “Who’s with you right now, Giroro?”

“Uhh…” muttered Giroro in a low voice, realizing something important, “I haven’t asked that yet.”

‘Kukukuku, I expected as much; looking for a replacement for Natsumi,’ thought Kululu while he made his usual chuckle aloud, but then stated, “If they have information on the Aevians, bring them back to the Hinata’s so we can get more information, kukukuku…”

“Uh, will do,” Giroro replied as the two hung up on their sides. He then looked up to the five young women above him, “I… hope you don’t mind, but you guys are going to have to meet up at where the platoon and I live at.”

“Agreed,” Mercury stated with a nod of her head, “We would need more information on the bird creatures from you and your platoon, and your platoon would need to know about the bracelets they now possess.”

“… Oh no!” gasped Eternal Moon with fright, getting the attention of everyone else, “What is it, Eternal Moon?!” questioned Jupiter.

“We forgot about the picnic we were having!” stated Eternal Moon, which made the Senshi drop their shoulders and guard in disbelief. Eternal Moon then started to jog back a little towards where the picnic area was, “I’m going to check up on the food!”

“Usagi!” called out the other Senshi, calling Eternal Moon by her real name, as three of the four remaining Senshi went after her, “You gotta de-transform before anyone sees you!” stated Venus.

The only ones that remained standing there were Mars and Giroro, “Geez, that Usagi; she can be such an idiot,” Mars commented with a heated sigh. It was then that Mars was surrounded by a flash of red light around her; she de-transformed back to who she really was. She was the black haired woman from the picnic that Giroro saw before; Rei.

Giroro was surprised from the sudden light show from the black haired woman, but regained his composure afterwards, “I know you will need the address to the Hinata residence,” he started to say.

“Yeah,” stated back Rei as she glanced down at the red Keronian, “You can tell it to me when I get back to my friends.”

“Umm; yeah, of course…” replied Giroro as the two of them soon walked back towards the picnic where Rei’s friends returned to.

It was a somewhat cold, misty November morning here in the little town of Peach Creek. Soon we come upon one of the many neighborhoods of the town; the Peach Creek Cul-De-Sac. It is here where we could see a lone figure, sitting on the side of the sidewalk in front of his house. It was a pale, middle-sized boy; about the age of thirteen or so. He was dressed in a red t-shirt that was underneath his long sleeved brown jacket, a pair of purple shorts and a pair of red socks that went a bit passed his knees and blue tennis shoes. He also wore an unusual hat on his head; a beanie with two white stripes on the sides. Who was this boy, you may ask? His name is Eddward with two D's, by everyone seems to just call him Double D instead.

Anyway, the boy named Double D just continued to sit there on the sidewalk, looking down at the road towards the direction of both his friend's Ed and Eddy's houses; he knew they were both busy today being with their families, being that today was Thanksgiving.

He made a small sigh to himself, 'I can't believe that Mother and Father had to work today,' he thought to himself with a sad expression in his emerald eyes, looking back down at the ground as he did, 'Did they not know that today was Thanksgiving, one of the few holidays to be with your family?!'

"… Hey, Double D!"

"Ack!" yelped Double D as he jumped a little at the sudden voice. He turned to his left to see a familiar person; he could now see one of his friends was coming up to him. He was a short thirteen year old boy with messy, blue hair that had three clumps of it sticking out. He wore a yellow and purple shirt with a red stripe down his right side underneath a golden yellow and purple long sleeved jacket, a pair of blue jeans and red tennis shoes.

"Oh… H-Hello Eddy," Double D greeted to his arriving friend, forcing out a small smile to him.

Eddy arched an eyebrow to him; he could tell something was wrong, "What're you doin' sitting out here on the sidewalk?" he asked.

Double D's face dropped the forced smile, "… You honestly want to know?" he then asked in a dull and dry voice, still looking at him.

"Uh…" muttered Eddy slightly, "Yeah, 'course I do," he replied back, sitting down next to Double D on the sidewalk as he did, "Now spill it, what's wrong?"

Double D bit his bottom lip a little, "I-It's my parents…" he started to say with a quiet mutter, "… They had to go to work today."

"… What, really?" Eddy questioned with surprise, "But today's Thanks--"

"You don't think I know that?!" Double D interrupted Eddy's statement with a bit of a snap in his voice.

"Hey, don't snap at me like that!" Eddy replied back with his own little snippet of anger, "I was just tryin' to see what was wrong! Geez…"

Double D made a small, sad sigh, turning away from his friend as he did, "I know, I'm sorry I lashed at you like that. It's just… hard for me."

Eddy stayed silent for a moment before he spoke again, "… Hey, why don't you come over to my house for Thanksgiving?"

"What…?!" Double D started to question as he turned to him in surprise. He soon felt Eddy's right hand being placed on his left shoulder, which made his body stiff up a little in surprise, "C'mon Sockhead, I bet my parents wouldn't mind ya at all!"

Double D suddenly got flustered at Eddy's offer, "U-Umm… I-I'm not so sure about--"

"Oh come on, Double D! It's only Thanksgiving, for cryin' out loud!" Eddy replied back as he got up from where he sat on the sidewalk, turning back towards Double D as he did, "What're you waitin' for, a bus? Get up!"

"… Aright," Double D stated as he got up from where he sat, "I'll come."

Soon after the two started to walk towards Eddy's house, but then the two noticed something coming up from behind them; a cruddy-looking van was driving its way into the Cul-De-Sac, parking in the driveway of Eddy's house. Eddy recognized who the van belonged to.

"Wait a minute," Eddy thought out loud to himself, "I didn't think Evan was coming here this year."

"… You mean your brother, right?" Double D stated.

Eddy replied to his statement with a small nod of his head, "Yeah…"

Since the incident that happened this summer, everyone in the neighborhood decided to avoid the subject of Eddy's brother as much as they could. But, if they thought about it in another way, the incident would not have led them to being forgiven by the other kids of the neighborhood…

"Hopefully he has forgiven you for hitting him with the door by now," Double D started to say, "After all, time heals all wounds."

"… You're right," Eddy replied back, "Let's get goin'."

It was about a minute later that the two Ed's came up to Eddy's house, only to see Eddy's brother and parents standing near their cars. It was also while the two were approaching the adults, Double D noticed something sitting in the front passenger seat of Eddy's brother's van; a pistol. He gulped a little at it, 'Why would Eddy's brother have a gun?' Double D thought, 'Hopefully it's there for protection…'

Meanwhile, Eddy was listening in on the conversation with his brother and his parents, "What did you need at the store again?" his mom asked his brother.

"Eh, just some plain chips and dip for the football game," Eddy's brother replied, "I forgot to get 'em back at home."

"Okay Evan, we'll go get them for you," Eddy's dad stated, "Just take care of Eddy for a moment while we're away."

"Oh sure, I'll be able to do that," Evan stated back once again.

Eddy's body froze a little at the situation at hand, "Great, now we're gonna be left alone with him."

Soon Eddy's parents got into their car and drove off to the store, leaving Evan standing there. A smirk grew on his face as he saw them leave the neighborhood, "Hey Pipsqueak!" he soon started to call out, "Where are you? I know you're just dying to see me, right?"

"Eddy, it isn't safe to be standing here behind his van," Double D whispered to Eddy, "Let's retreat over to Ed's house and--"

"Double D, stay here."

Double D widened his eyes at Eddy, "What?"

"You heard me; stay right here!" Eddy repeated as he turned a little to Double D, "And don't let Evan see you, no matter what!"

It was after he said that statement that Eddy dashed out from behind the van and into Evan's sights, "Well, well, well; if it isn't Pipsqueak!" chimed Evan when he saw Eddy, "What took you so long to respond?"

"Shut up Evan," Eddy stated to him as he walked a little closer to him, "What're you even doin' here anyway?"

"It's Thanksgiving today, didn't you know?" Evan replied, "I just wanted to spend some quality time with the family; especially you."

"Will you just cut the crap?!" Eddy yelled to him, curing up his right hand into a fist, "If you're here to beat me up, you're wrong! I will stop you!"

"Heh," Evan chuckled a little, "So, you think you can take me, Shrimp? Fine, let's see how far you'll go."

Soon the two started to finally duke it out! But alas, it would not last for long before Evan pinned Eddy down to the ground, "Haha, that was it? I expected more from you!" he stated.

"Let me go, you jerk!" Eddy yelled at him, struggling to try to let himself free from his brother's grip.

"Not a chance in Hell!" Evan stated as a sinister smirk grew on his face, "Now, let's get down to business here…"

As soon as he said that, he took Eddy's left wrist and slammed it to the ground until he heard a bone snap, with Eddy screaming in agony the whole time, "Evan, stop it!!!" he screamed, a few tears of pain coming starting to form.

"Shut it!" Evan replied back as he then took Eddy by the throat, lifting him up into the air as he did, "Or better yet, let's take this beating up a notch!" he then squeezed his hands further into Eddy's throat, "You're going to die today! How exciting is that for you?!"

"Stop!!!" screamed a voice from behind Evan as he turned around to see something surprising. It was Double D, tears streaming down his face; with Evan's gun now in his hands pointed towards him. You could see him and the gun trembling as well.

"Double… D-D!" choked out Eddy when he saw him.

"Where'd you get that gun, kid?" Evan questioned as he loosens his grip on Eddy's neck to grip onto Eddy's right wrist.

"I-I-I f-found it in y-your v-v-van!" Double D stuttered out with more tears coming down his face, "L-L-L-Let Eddy go! O-Or else--"

"What, you'll shoot me?" Evan stated as he then takes Eddy and puts holds him up to his chest area like a human shield, "How lucky do ya feel with that gun, kid? Think you can handle what you're risking there?"

There was a tense moment of silence between them. It was then that Double D realizes that he sees an opening, narrowing his eyes in anger at Evan, "L-Let him go! Now!"

He soon points the gun slightly to the ground and fires; hitting Evan's right bottom leg.

"Gah!" he cries out in pain as he drops Eddy to the ground in front of him and clasps onto his leg, blood was coming out of the wound.

Double D stood there for a short moment, processing what he just did before realizing, "Oh no, Eddy!" he gasped as he soon rushed up to him, the gun still in his hands. He soon drops it near Evan when he got up to where Eddy was…

… That was not the smartest thing in the world to do at this moment.

"A-Are you alright, Eddy?!" Double D asked him in a frantic way as he bent down to him.

"Y-Yeah, I think so," Eddy replied before looking down at his left wrist, "I think my wrist is broken though…"

"Here, let me check," Double D offered as he reached out to examine Eddy's wrist. It was when he touched it that Eddy hissed in pain, "Oh dear, it is broken…"

"No duh, Sherlock…" Eddy stated a bit sarcastically before turning to him with a small smile, "Thanks."

"… It's not a problem, Eddy," Double D replied with a smile of his own, a clear blush coming onto his face, "I-I'm just glad you're okay. Because…"

"… Because what?" Eddy questioned slightly, wondering where Double D was going with this.

"Because… B-Because I…" Double D muttered a little while turning away; he soon turned back to him, his face was redder than before, "Eddy, I lo--"

Bang!

Another gun shot was heard from behind Double D, who soon fell down to the ground, gasping and screaming in pain.

"Double D!!!" Eddy gasped as he then saw what was wrong; Double D was shot in his right side, blood was oozing out of the wound from under his red shirt.

Eddy soon heard a crazed laugh from in front of him; it was Evan, the gun was now pointed at him, "Didn't think the little bastard had the balls to shoot," Evan started to say, "But it looks like I've turned the tables now," he then soon puts his finger on the trigger, "Say adios, Pipsqueak!"

Before he could pull the trigger, Eddy saw someone come up behind Evan. He soon saw the person hit Evan in the back of the head with something hard; a wooden baseball bat. Evan lost his grip on the gun as he fell to the ground, knocked out like a light from the hit. The person with the bat soon came over to them, "You alright, dude?"

"Kevin?!" Eddy questioned a little with disbelief, "What're you doing over here?"

"I heard some yelling and I saw you two in trouble," Kevin replied as he then noticed Double D, "Is Double D okay?"

"Oh jeez, Double D!" Eddy yelped a little as he noticed that Double D was still lying there in the same position, "Double D…?!"

It was then that Eddy turned him over with his right hand, only to see what he feared. Double D's wound was getting worse, and his breathing was becoming shallower than before. This made Eddy's stomach turn inside out with fear.

"… Kevin, go call the police."

"Uh sure; I'll go call them," Kevin replied as he soon ran back to his house, leaving Eddy alone with Double D and Evan.

"Double D…" Eddy started to say as he looked down at his friend, holding back his tears, "Y-You better not die on me!"

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It was about five minutes later that the police and ambulances arrived to the scene, with the whole neighborhood now out and about to see what was going on. Soon the ambulances take Double D and Eddy to the hospital, while the police took Evan down to the police station, charging him with attempted murder and assault. Double D and Eddy soon arrive to the hospital, with Double D going straight into the emergency room and Eddy going towards another wing in the hospital.

The hours soon flew by. Eddy was now lying in a hospital bed; a lime green cast was now around his left wrist. He was sleeping; still knocked out from the gas they had to give him to ease the pain of his wrist. Eventually, he started to come to, his ice eyes fluttered open to see the white ceiling above him. He soon saw the clock on the wall; it now read eight 'o clock at night. He widened his eyes at this, how long had he been asleep?! It was then that he thought about something else…

"Double D," he muttered as he soon got up from his hospital bed and dashed out of his hospital room. He soon went towards where the receptionist's desk was, "Can I help you?" asked the receptionist sitting there.

"Uh, yeah. Do you know where Dou - Uh, I mean, Eddward Johnson's room is?"

"Sure, let me look him up," stated the woman as she typed in Double D's name on the computer, "He's in room E-44."

"Okay, thanks!" Eddy replied to her as he then went off to find the room.

It took him about three minutes to find the room Double D was in, he gulped a little before he entered the room. What he saw when he entered the room made him sigh in relief; indeed Double D was in this room, he looked like he was sleeping quietly.

He was alright.

Soon Eddy decided to come into the room, closing the door behind him as he did. It was when he closed the door that Double D started to stir a little with a little moan; he was waking up.

"Double D…?" Eddy stated aloud as Double D turned to Eddy was, "… Eddy?"

"… You, uh, feelin' any better?" Eddy asked him.

Double D nodded his head slowly, "S-Sort of, yes…"

There was a pausing moment between them before Eddy decided to start something else, "So, umm… I got a question for ya."

"Hmm?" questioned Double D a little, "What's on your mind, Eddy?"

Eddy made a small sigh to him, "Before Evan shot you… What were you going to say to me?"

Double D's emerald eyes widened at the question, his face turning rosy in his cheeks, "Oh! Uh, it was, umm, oh dear…"

Eddy stayed silent for a moment while Double D rambled a little more; a little bit incoherently now, 'I knew it,' he thought.

"I-It seems I forgot what it was I--"

"Cut the act, Double D," Eddy started to say, making Double D stop talking, "You're trying to say that you love me, don't you?"

Double D widened his eyes at him again; he was now red as a beet from all of the blushing, "… Y-Yes," he finally stated back.

There was another pause between them before Double D spoke, "I-I'm sorry Eddy. If you don't want to be friends anymore, it's--"

He was soon interrupted when he felt something grab his left hand; it was Eddy's right hand, "Don't be stupid, Sockhead," Eddy started to say, "That's something I've been holding back from you too."

"W-What?" Double D questioned with surprise, "You mean you--"

Before Double D could finish his sentence, he was cut off by something he didn't expect; a kiss from Eddy. He widened his eyes in shock at the act, but quickly closed his eyes and started to kiss back; it lasted for about thirty seconds before they separated from each other, both of them blushing madly.

It seems like things weren't so bad for them now after all…

The Snow Lady Reviews: Psychonauts

My Introduction Paragraph: Hello everyone! This is YukiMizuno here with my first video game review article on dA! I will be giving out reviews on video games that I own, which is currently at one hundred and six games in total; so expect a lot of reviews! 8D These reviews will be officially called: "The Snow Lady Reviews: Insert Game Title Here…" because I wanted my reviews to sound catchy and get your attention… Plus, it is based off of my dA username; the Yuki part means "Snow", while the Mizu means "Water" (which does not play into the title, but I felt like mentioning it anyway). And… I am calling these reviews "The Snow Lady Reviews" because someone in a certain Pokémon chatroom likes to call me that when I come in, which I do not mind at all! So, I thought it would be a good idea to call my reviews this! Anyway… Let's get this review underway!

The Review:

The Game's Background: The game Psychonauts was made by a former employee of LucasArts named Tim Schafer, who also helped make The Monkey Island game series for LucasArts. Eventually when the executives of LucasArts decided to focus only on the Star Wars franchise of games, Tim Schafer decided to leave the company and made his own; which was Double Fine Production. And the first released game for Double Fine was Psychonauts. Unfortunately, the game did not sell well; despite the game being reviewed as Game of the Year in some reviews and websites… It is now currently available on Steam for the PC and for the Mac; it is usually purchased for around $9.99, but it is now on sale for $4.99 until Cyber Monday (AKA: November 28th) because of Black Friday/Cyber Monday (I'm writing this review on Saturday, November 26th…). You can also get it for download on your Xbox 360, if you have 3GB of free space, of course… Same goes for the computer version too.

Short Summary: The story revolves around a young psychic named Raz, who ran away from his home to pursue his dream of becoming a Psychonaut, who are an organization of psychics who help out in various other things around the world. He ends up at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, where they train people to become Psychonauts, and it is also a summer camp for psychic children. But, all is not right at the camp, and it is up to Raz to stop a dastardly plan that will threaten the stability of the world! But, in order for him to reach his destination of saving the world, he must travel through the subconscious minds of those around him so that they will be freed from their craziness/problems and can then help him get a step closer to where he needs to go.

Pros: I love the story of this game, as you can see how I explained some of it above. All of the characters (including the NPC's) are charming in their own, unique way, and it is so much fun to speak to them at any time; so don't try to ignore NPC's all the time. It is also a great, funny game that does humor right in a game; I think some other gaming companies (and even some animation companies) should take some notes on it, because they need it.

Cons: As for the controls for the game, I recommend that you invest in a USB controller (or a 360 controller, I hear that works as well on the computer), because the controls are hard to master on a keyboard… Well, it was hard for me on my laptop. Trust me; it makes the game a lot easier to play if you had a controller. The combat is okay for the most part, but I wish there were more powers for you to master instead of eight; maybe in the sequel… maybe. And the last few levels… oh god. They can get rather frustrating at any time when you're not prepared. Don't get me wrong, the first seventy-five percent of the game is really easy to handle, but the last parts are really, really… hard.

My Score: 9.5 out of 10! The reason for this score is because of the keyboard controls… Sorry for those who wanted it to be a perfect 10!

Conclusion: Anyway, I absolutely love this game to pieces! I would recommend it to everyone; especially to people who have a sense of humor (or dark humor, whichever one). Even though it plays better on the original Xbox, I don't think anyone should miss playing this game at all on the PC.

A Summary in [American] Haiku:

Raz come from circus,
To be Psychonaut agent -
Must save brainless camp…

(… God, I need to work on that… XD)